If 40 year old consoles can resume back to normal, so should 10 year old consoles.
However, it should be noted that the PS3 is now 20 years old.
Might’ve used it until 2016, that was just three years after release of the PS4.
Uhh… Yes I do expect it to resume back to normal. Why the fuck wouldn’t it?
Sure, if I connect it to the internet I expect all sorts to updates to be missing. But offline? 1 day or 100 years shouldn’t make any difference. OK the CMOS battery might be flat.
OK the CMOS battery might be flat.
Arent they mostly flat to begin with? Sorry… I couldn’t help it.
The case in the tweet wasn’t a hardware problem. Apparently the person’s PSN account had gotten deleted during their 10+ years of not using it, and downloaded games attached to the account didn’t work any more.
That’s still a pretty big fucking problem.
Yeah, but playing a physical copy of a game would be a fairer comparison to older systems.
Still have a slim PS2 and wouldn’t you know it, it still plays all the games I bought for it.
Amazing. Maybe we could reverse-engineer it and figure out how the ancients achieved this technology.
It was achieved by emblazoning the games on to sacred discs.
But that would be communism!
“You expect the things you paid for and bought to still be there later?”
Yes, you corporate nut sucking fuck nugget, I do.
Your way with words is beautiful
I try 🩷
Haha, I was selling a whole racing chair/wheel/shifter combo for my partner’s dad and he got it for the PS3, so it came with around 10 games. I used dirt to test it, ended up deciding to keep it for myself in the end.
BUT my account and downloaded games also worked, because I didn’t hook it up to the Internet (which after reading this I shall never do).
That shit should be illegal. They should be charged with theft and treated accordingly, or at the least get the shit kicked out of them; the way we used to treat thieves in the good old days.
I’ve been using my Hotmail account since 1998. I can log in right now and go back and read all the stupid emails my friends and I were sending each other in high school 28 years ago. And I’ve never paid a cent for that Hotmail account. And my cartridge games still have my saves.
So yeah, I do expect that.
And my cartridge games still have my saves.
they might not much longer, batteries and finite life and all that.
but at least you can slap new batteries in them and the game will still fucking work, and not permanently taken away from you because you took to long to go back and replay it.
Not all cartridges have batteries in them.
Most the ones with internal storage for save files do.
also, cartridges are repairable.
Battery dies?
Easily replaced.
save ROM fails? Easily replaced.
board eaten by corrosion? 98% chance someones reverse engineered it and posted the pcb design files online for you to get made via one of the PCB companies.
Hell, even if the chip holding the game itself dies, you can replace it and flash the new game from a rom file and be back to playing on your console again, at relatively minimum cost.
But modern disk gets scratched? Hope it still works… If it doesnt, well, you’re only hope is modding the console to boot a burnable disk or buy a new copy.
You shouldn’t. Microsoft locked me out of my 2001 hotmail account a few years ago.
Sony should fucking refund me for every one of my games that I bought that stops working
I’ll just never rent anything from them again. Fuck renting.
Yes, I expect that.
Just shake out the mouse turds and plug that fucker in
It’s a N64, not an IDF rack. No mouse turds in my home electronics.
I bought my NES with my own money in 1988ish after saving up for months. If I go downstairs and power it on right now, I’m certain Tetris will fire right up.
I am less certain. Cartridges dont exactly age well. I had enough trouble with them in the 90s.
I dont mean to defend not owning our games, just saying cartridges were not perfect either.
I’ve had the batteries die in carts with save functionality but I’ve never had a cartridge itself stop working. Maybe I’ve been lucky.
My Sega Genesis from 94 boots up and plays the games That were purchased back then whenever I want it to…
I just bought Shadow Dancer and whaddayaknow, it just started after I plugged in the cart. Great game btw.
I’ve never heard anybody else talk about this game. But on Sega Genesis, there’s this puzzle game called zoop. It takes a second or two to teach yourself how to play it. But it’s crazy Addictive
I’ll check it out
I have no idea what i’m doing 🤪
was it one of Nintendo’s own love hotels?
I fire my 8 bit Nintendo up every five years or so. As long as I blow in the cartridge I’m still good to go.
Fgs use a q-tip! Your saliva will corrode not only the cartridge but the contacts in the system.
I’ve always been told not to put a qtip anywhere my elbow wouldn’t fit.
Then how do you clean your colon‽
I ask one of my friends to use their elbow for me.
Seems reasonable.
Have you tried their knees instead?
That’s what the toilet brush is for.
Elbow.
I’m more disgusted at the state of their urethra. You’ve gotta clean that thing
I’ve replaced the save battery on NES carts before and save keeps working. Gaming used to be cool. Now it’s just a momentary money grab the company hopes you forget about.
tfw i turn on my ps1 to play final fantasy 7 and my save where i go on a date with barret is still there.
For anyone who expects their retro console to boot up and be playable, check to see if your console has known capacitor issues before powering it up. Even caps not part of the plague can leak if they’re old enough. If they’re powered on with leaking caps, it can be much harder to fix than if the caps were replaced before being powered on
The original Xbox has a capacitor thats prone to fail.
I haven’t used my PS2 in about 20 years, and know for a fact that I could hook it up and play Jak and Daxter today with a single hdmi adapter.
